There should be a word for it.
You know the feeling – the morning after a data overload. Mine came courtesy of a an all-day seminar called The Future of Journalism, and right now my brain is semi-concussed. Like a sharp one-two from a media 2020.
Dazed, I won’t try to delineate each session. Rather, a few [...]
“Phew, that kitty litter is downright olid!”
No, I’m not talking Siamese, but endangered English, our mother tongue with an inbuilt caducity – or perishableness.
In order to make room for some 2000 new words (like wii and wiki and frappuccino), Collins English Dictionary is facing a reluctant spring-clean – in with the new, and out with [...]
Q: Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door?
A: He wanted to win the No-Bell Prize
Doing the maths, that riddle came at a cost of 8 and 1/2 cents. Compared to the lavish 22 cents of this rib-tickler:
Q: What do you get if you cross a stereo with a refridgerator [sic]?
A: Cool music
Crunching [...]
Times crossword 8222, appearing a few weeks back in The Australian, had some majestic clues. Among them, I’m tempted to nominate the year’s best:
Lands round front of green: God! About seven feet for an eagle (8)
For those daring to solve the clue, here’s a letter breakdown:
__ __ N __ S __ [...]
Mumbai gigolo on the road waiting for their customer
Jeez that phrase went close to making the Gold-Class Googlers for 2007/2008. However, after close consultation with the snickometer, the umpire has plumped for this lot. Howzem?
The Ten Weirdest Key-Words To Lead To This Blog
Canyon Country Dental Insurance
Preloved organs
Jamie Oliver Taree police
Stonehenge replica wallpaper
Zabaglione pregnant
Fatality stilts
Psychic monkey [...]
Rodential
Aardvark
Unshaded
Nonirritant
A random sample of some single keywords that have unlocked this blog over the last calendar year. Yet none cuts the mustard compared to the following bunch of esoterica, each inquiry bringing you browsers this way.
As you can see, the last post was the Bronze Googlers, while today is the odder set of search terms. [...]
Kidnap skit
Smoking foxes
Fluoro pingpong ball
Just a taste of the keywords that you crazy surfers have used to chance by Cassowary Crossing over the last year. Yet none qualifies among the 30 strangest.
As you’ll see.
Today’s Bronze Google Medals are devoted to the less-than-common search terms used over the last 12 months. In coming posts I’ll be [...]
Let’s call him Jeremy Shackleton, a software programmer in the IT Division. And one day the boss says, ‘Hey, you any relation to the polar bloke? You know, the great explorer?’
And Jeremy goes, ‘No. Well, not really. But my wife is.’
Because Shackleton is Jeremy’s married name. Standing at the altar, the groom had agreed to [...]
Who said the Vatican is old school? Just stumbled on a word list issued by the Holy See that brings Latin into the new millennium, with such words as tape recorder (or machina echoica) and astronaut (aerius viator) converted into Pope-speak.
Some are hilarious. Drugs aren’t drugs but medicamentae stupefactivae, while a bidet cops the elegant [...]